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Frontier Beacon Fire

The battle to counter the rebellion has been in a stalemate for more than half a year. The traditional fighting methods such as building ladders to climb the city wall, using chariots to hit the city wall, digging holes and crossing the city wall, etc. are all invalid, because Wang Jun and others have practiced it. Then both sides began to develop and innovate new weapons. The official army invented a siege equipment called the cave house. They pushed the cave house and leaned against the city wall. Seeing that the task was completed, they suddenly had empty feet and disappeared... The heaven-killed rebels actually dug tunnels and waited for the government army to step on. The imperial court sent a letter to them.

Qin Han was appointed as an ambassador to assist Lei You in the end to quell the rebellion. So the official army continued to work hard, piled up a mountain of earth on the fish bridge in the north of the city, and shot arrows into the city every day. They built a new species of "Gewing-shaped enemy shed covered holes" and approached the city again... This time, the rebels stopped digging tunnels, showing their superb and flexible imagination. Suddenly, an almost identical "enemy shed" appeared on the city wall. Two box cars gradually approached, and the rebels shouted, "We gave it a new name, called 'Xi Xianghui'."

This deadlock lasted until September 4, when the official army finally captured the enemy building in Chengdu, and the rebels in the city began to be discouraged...

On the 20th, Lei Youzhong, Shi Pu's two cave houses finally reached the Chengdu city wall. The power began to appear, and a new door was opened from the outside to the inside. Inside the door was the tip of the rebels' guns that looked like honeycombs, and outside the door were two soldiers from the official army who were rewarded with spears, squeezing through this "narrow gate" with spears. Chengdu City was captured like this...

But the matter is not over yet, and there are still street fighting. From morning to night, fires surged into the sky. The rebels were killed more than 3,000 people, but Wang Jun fled. Lei You finally learned from his experience and lessons and said that he would not enter the city. Instead, the whole city continued to set fire, turning Chengdu into a city that never sleeps until dawn the next day... It was dawn, and Lei You finally entered the city, but it never ended, set fire again. He also ordered the whole city to summon the former Song Dynasty officials to report immediately. After reporting, he began to screen. Anyone who had been a rebel officer would throw them into the fire regardless of the reason.

The operation of burning living people lasted from morning to night for a whole day, burning hundreds of people to death. The "History of the Song Dynasty" evaluated this four words as "very unjust and cruel". Among these illegal and inhumane evil deeds, only Li Jichang strictly restrained his subordinates. In addition to not disturbing the people, a large number of children and women were placed in temples and sent troops to guard them. They were sent home after the situation was stable.

In October, Wang Jun fled to Fushunjian, and Lei You died. Yang Huaizhong led the Tiger Wing Army to pursue him. Two days later, he ordered Shi Pu to be the second team. The rebels who fled to Fushunjian were preparing to form a raft to cross the river. After observing the enemy situation at a high place, Yang Huaizhong decided not to give the rebels a chance to cross the river. A fierce fight by the riverside, the rebels were captured more than 6,000 alive, and the rest were wiped out. Wang Jun was exhausted and committed suicide. His subordinate Lu Bin came to see Yang Huaizhong with Wang Jun's head and wanted to make meritorious contributions. Yang took Wang Jun's head and dreamed of getting promoted and wealthy. Shi Pu arrived. Without saying a word, he robbed Wang Jun's head and returned to Chengdu to receive a reward.

On the 8th, Lei Youzhong submitted a report to the court that Wang Jun's rebellion was quelled. On the 22nd, the court immigrated Sichuan and Xia 2nd Routes. On the 23rd, Wang Qinruo and Liang Hao were sent to serve as the pacifiers of Sichuan and Xia 2nd Routes.

On November 1, the Great Khitan conferred the son of Li Jiqian and the father of Li Yuanhao, the future founding emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty, as the governor of Shuofang.

On the 18th, the Song Dynasty's routine dynasty meeting was held. On this day, Zhang Qixian was drunk and got drunk. After barely attending court, he almost lay on the ground in public. Now even the emperor could not save him. The impeachment memorials of the censors flew in like snow... On the 21st, Prime Minister Zhang was dismissed from office.

But who would have thought that from this moment on, the wheel of destiny began to rotate. Perhaps it was really destined to the will of heaven. It was not until the finale was finalized that everyone suddenly realized that to achieve the result that everyone, including Song, Liao and Xia, would be satisfied (or endured) by everyone, all of which was essential... including Prime Minister Zhang Da’s drunk this time.

On March 9, 1001, the 2nd routes of Sichuan and Xia were divided into 4th routes of Yi, Li, Zi and Kui. From then on, that land had a new name: Sichuan. It was used until the present time after a thousand years...

On the 20th, the former Empress Xiao of the Emperor of the Emperor of Liao was demoted to the imperial concubine for his crime. Han Derang was given the name Dechang and was named King of Qi, Prime Minister, Privy Councilor of the North and South Courts, and became a collection of Xiu Ge and Xi Zhen, and was in charge of military and political power in the north and south of the Great Khitan. He became the most powerful minister with the most authority in more than 200 years of Liao history.

In April, Wang Qinruo returned to the court from Shu. To reward him, Wang Qinruo was promoted to the position of the Chief Secretary for Political Affairs on the same day.

On May 15, Liao Shengzong appointed his cousin, Bodhisattva Xiao, as the Queen of Qi Tian.

Recently, the Song Dynasty received news. During the Wang Jun mutiny, Li Jiqian suddenly had an old problem and robbed the military rations transported to Lingzhou City. The nature is bad and the actions are rude. It is a completely replica of the famous robbery of 400,000 shi of military rations a few years ago.

When the news came, the emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty were silent. Rather than saying that they were angry and shocked at this time, they were more annoyed and regretful. Why are we so slow? In fact, Li Jiqian had already told us clearly: he will take action soon!

It was one night in 999. A sudden loud noise in Li Jiqian's camp was heard, and the fire was shook by a hundred miles. All Dangxiang people woke up and got up. After getting up, they started searching overnight. As a result, a large pit was found outside Li Jiqian's tent, where a strange stone - a meteorite lies quietly. Li Jiqian was really lucky that night. As long as the meteorite was slightly biased, they could change their positions and directly change them to heaven to be stars. What's even more strange is that there was a line of words engraved on the meteorite, "Don't worry about China." Please note that there was no Western Xia text at this time, so the Chinese characters were written on it. This is the appearance of the Han gods and warned Li Jiqian not to cause trouble in the Song Dynasty again.

Li Jiqian immediately announced that he had listened to his advice, cursed and swore that I would never go south again. Keep my word, otherwise I would let me watch the meteor shower every day... This incident reached the Central Plains, and the Han people liked it from the bottom of their hearts. Whether it was a miracle or Li Jiqian was making trouble, it proved one thing. That is, Li Jiqian announced to the outside world with great sincerity that he would be in harmony with the Song Dynasty and never have any trouble. He also used the orders of God as a reason to make his warlike tribe obedient...

How good intentions are! But why didn’t the Han people think about the subtext behind this meteorite? If I don’t let me go in the south, where would I have to go? To the north and east? They are all my Khitan father-in-law. Then they can only go west... Uighurs in the west and Tubo in the southwest cannot cause meteorites, and they can’t get in the trouble of China. But be careful, as long as you go west, you will still meet your old friend Lingzhou... So I can only be very sorry. In order to listen to the words of the meteorite brother, I can only pull out Lingzhou first. Robbing military rations is the first step. Song Dynasty knew this. Even Li Jiqian knew exactly what he wanted to do next. What should I do? Should I still want Lingzhou?

Zhao Heng chose to be tolerant. Because on July 10, an alarm was sent from the north, the Liao army was about to invade.

Zhao Heng appointed Wang Xian and Wang Chao as the commander-in-chief of the front line, and was ready for the northern border with 35,000 cavalry. Dingzhou was nominally the base camp, but only 15,000 cavalry were left. The Mozhou and Beiping Village each had 10,000 cavalry. The front was heavy in front and the back were light, and the center of gravity had reached the border. However, after Zhao Heng had reached the position of troops, he issued a new order, ordering the formation to move forward again and reach the Suicheng of the Weilu Army. In this way, he could defend the enemy outside the national gate and prevent the Khitans from rushing into the Song territory!

What to do in the northwest? Song Zhenzong's mind suddenly flashed. On August 2, he appointed former prime minister Zhang Qixian as the sanctioning commander of the prefecture army such as Jing, Yuan, Yi, Wei, Bin, Ning, Huan, Qing, Fu, Yan, Baoan, Zhenrong, Qingyuan, and Liang Hao was the deputy, and immediately rushed to the northwest border to preside over defense. This set a record. The strategic commander who controlled the defense of important frontiers in the Song Dynasty started with Zhang Qixian. But what? The reason was that he asked for it. Who made him so drunk? But this was the arrangement of the will of heaven in the dark. Li Jiqian began his glorious and crazy performance for the last 20 months of his life. In the end, the hero of the Dangxiang was about to die in a sentence by Zhang Qixian...

In September, Li Jiqian sent troops to attack the Qingyuan army in the southeast of Lingzhou. As long as the Qingyuan army was captured, Lingzhou City would be completely isolated! Qingyuan City resisted and asked Yang Qiong for help. Yang Qiong was about to send all the troops. Some people said, "No! In this way, there will be an accident in the rear..." It's a ghost! Open the map and start drawing a line tilted to the southeast from Lingzhou. Next is the Qingyuan army, then Huanzhou in the mainland of the Song Dynasty, and then Qingzhou. Historical records: When Yang Qiong advanced forward, he arrived in Qingzhou! He has always been in the country and has not even arrived in Huanzhou, and you are still worried about the rear...

But Yang Qiong actually obeyed. He left the large army and himself in the city of Qingzhou in the rear, and sent only 6,000 people to rescue the Qingyuan army.

Before the 6,000 people arrived, the Qingyuan Army was lost. At this time, Yang Qiong sent 600 people to reinforce again. But before the 600 people arrived, Li Jiqian entered the mainland of Song Dynasty! Yang Qiong and his large group of troops were pushed to Qinggang Village in Wangmeiyuan. It was very dangerous, but it was also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...

This was the first time in Li Jiqian's life that he left the desert and put his head into the mainland of the Song Dynasty. Yang Qiong had a huge reinforcement force around him. Facing the fat meat delivered to him, Li Jiqian had to take off several layers of skin even if he was not bitten to death! Then he had to escape again. The battlefield returned to the territory of Dangxiang, and the Qingyuan army would be lost and regained. The previous failure would turn into a successful luring of the enemy... In this way, no matter how Li Jiqian was in life and death, Lingzhou would at least be safe. But...

Yang Qiong's subordinates were like they were worried about "rear safety" not long ago. "Qinggang Village had too few water sources. They could not station a large group of people and could not defend them at all. So there was only one way, give up it and retreat immediately." Yang Qiong listened to his advice again, burned all the things that could not be taken away, and took the people to retreat quickly. They succeeded, and Li Jiqian, who was riding Dangxiang horse, had no time to chase him, so he could only choose another target: Linzhou.

Li Jiqian made a mistake. He didn't know that the Linzhou garrison was Cao Wei, the second son of the first general. He was the nightmare of the Dangxiang people later. He slashed at Li Jiqian, the saint of Dangxiang Zhongxing, for the first time in the opening of the market...

At that time, Li Jiqian was very excited when he attacked the city. Suddenly something happened behind him. In Xiliubachuan, Tanglong Town, near Linzhou, his grain truck was robbed by a Song army that suddenly appeared... The news came, and Li Jiqian was a little confused. What happened? My grain and grass were robbed by the Song army? But he knew what to do after robbing for many years and the grain and grass were cut off. He immediately honestly disappeared from the Song territory with the fastest and most obedient movements, and ran back to Dangxiang's hometown.

He remembered one person's name and eight Chinese characters. The name is Cao Wei, not only Li Jiqian, but also Li Deming remembered this name deeply. The 8 Chinese characters are the strange tattoos on the meteorite. "Don't worry about China." He decided that he would never go south again and turn around to open up Lingzhou City first. After that, the world will suddenly become clear. Li Jiqian and the entire Dangxiang people are no longer the small group of refugees on the bank of the Yellow River before, and they will usher in the vast world of their dreams...

On the 23rd, the Liao lord Yelu Longxu came to Youzhou City, Nanjing. On October 1st, the imperial edict was issued to conquer the Song Dynasty! On the 4th, he appointed his younger brother Yelu Longyou as the King of Chu and stayed in the capital. On the 9th, he ordered his younger brother Yelu Longqing to be the vanguard and the army went on an expedition! But Khitan brothers, you must at least say hello to heaven and earth first, borrow a good weather, and borrow a good place before you can come?

On the 12th, Emperor Zhenzong of Song discussed with his ministers the offensive and defense of Qin, Ling, Gan, Yi, Liang and You with his ministers.

On the 16th, the Liao army met Zhang Bin, the vanguard of the Song army at the entrance of the Great Wall. At this time, heavy rain poured down. The Liao army exposed a fatal flaw - their bowstrings!

There has never been an answer to a question. Primitive humans are distributed in all corners of the world and cannot communicate with each other at all. But why do they all use bows and arrows? Who taught them uniformly? Or is the same intelligence of the same species, so creativity is similar? I won’t think about it for now. What I want to say is that the raw materials of bows and arrows are different from all over the world, especially bowstrings. Nomads use cow tendons, leather, etc., while the farming people do not have so many livestock, so they have to use silk, twine and other materials. This is a huge difference. For example, the leather bowstrings used by the Khitans at this time will lose their elasticity when they encounter rain, which is equivalent to a stringless waste bow!

Fengshui took turns. At the Battle of Junzi Pavilion, the bowstrings of the Song army failed in the cold weather, and the entire army was wiped out. At this time, a good opportunity was given, and the Liao army vanguard was completely defeated by Zhang Bin and fled north. Zhang Bin chased him reluctantly, so he ran into the main force of the Liao army behind... Wang Xian, the commander of the Song army's Dingzhou formation, failed to catch up with him in time. Zhang Bin made a quick decision: Withdraw the troops! At this time, the Song army was full of cavalry, galloping all the way, and safely retreated to Suicheng before the Liao army siege.

The main force of the Liao army followed closely and they met the old acquaintance Eryang - Yang Yanzhao and Yang Si. This time, Eryang chose to go out of the city to fight against the Liao army. In essence, this was the vanguard of the Song army fighting against the Liao army, so they were defeated, but Eryang still fought hard. Yang Liulang almost became his father. As long as the surname Yang went to fight, there would be no support... Fortunately, before Eryang was about to collapse, the reinforcements of the Song army finally arrived. This was the troops of Li Jixuan and Qin Han, and it was still not the main force of the Dingzhou formation. But the previous hard struggle of the Second Yang finally showed its effect. As soon as Li Jixuan and Qin Han's new forces entered the battlefield, the Liao army could not hold on...
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